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• Community Service

• Degrees Earned

• Professional Licensure & Certifications

• Professional Memberships

• Professional Participation

• Research

Degrees Earned

• Master of Science, Family Nurse Practitioner
  University of Wyoming
  1997

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing
  University of Wyoming
  1992

Professional Licensure & Certifications

• Family Nurse Practitioner licensure received from the Wyoming State Board of Nursing, October 1997. In good standing.

• Licensure for Prescriptive Authority by the Wyoming Board of Pharmacy current. In good standing.

• RN licensure current and in good standing with Wyoming State Board of Nursing.

• Family Nurse Practitioner Certification received through the American Nursing Association

Professional Memberships

• Sigma Theta Tau - Honor Society of Nursing

• Past Board Member of Wyoming Nurses Association, Casper

• American Academy of Nurse Practitioners

• Wyoming Advanced Practice Nurses

Research

• Currently working on research project: "Listening for Motivational Issues of the Paraprofessional Caregiver" with Victoria Murdock, PhD at the University of Wyoming

• Qualitative research study completed entitled "Exploring the Concept of Health Among Rural Adolescents with Insulin Dependent Diabetes Using Photography as a Facilitator of Communication"
  May 1997

Professional Participation

• Researched and wrote medical protocols for Casper-Natrona County Public Health STD and Family Planning Clinic.

• Facilitated Protocol review for Wyoming Reproductive Council.

• Co-authored a Smoking Cessation Model for Casper-Natrona County Public Health Department.

• Assisted in the writing of the Title X, Family Planning Grant from Wyoming Reproductive Council.  Received funding.

• Reviewed and updated client information forms currently used at Casper-Natrona County Public Health Department as part of Quality Assurance responsibilities.

• Served as advisor for Welcome Home Team at Public Health.  Assisted in the design format for home visitation program that focused on Maternal/Child health issues and was funded by Wyoming Legislature.

• Course Coordinator for Nursing 2240 - Medical Terminology; Nursing 3020 - Family as Client; N3040 - Assessment across the Lifespan; N4870- Transition Practicum for the University of Wyoming School of Nursing RN/BSN Completion Program.  Also have been responsible for instruction in the following courses:

  • Community Health Clinical

  • Health Promotion Clinical

  • Choice Based Clinical

  • Pediatric Content for Fall 2000 students in Laramie

  • Designed and implemented three Internet Courses that are currently being used in the University of Wyoming School of Nursing RN/BSN Completion Program.

• Recruitment and advising responsibilities for students regarding programs offered through University of Wyoming School of Nursing.

• Guest Speaker at the 1st Annual Rural Health conference held May 16-18, 2001 in Laramie, Wyoming.

• Guest speaker yearly at Casper College for graduating students in A.D.N. program. Topic: "Where do you go now?"

• Guest speaker at Wyoming Medical Center and local Long Term Care facilities for staff development needs and topics of interest.

• Instructor for Emergency Nurses Pediatric Course yearly until 2006.

• Practice as a Family Nurse Practitioner in Women’s Health at Westside Women's Clinic in Casper. 

• Preceptor for FNP students from UW and A.D.N. students from Casper College yearly.

Community Service

• Current Board member for Children's Advocacy Project - Casper, WY

• Board member: Children's Action Alliance - Cheyenne, WY

• FNP at Blue Envelope Health Fair - Breast exams and Mammogram screening

• Volunteer FNP at Women's Health Day - Casper

Page last updated 5/15/2007